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Test 10 · White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing

Kofi's mum asks about her haircut before she books it, showing him a photo. What should he do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, Kofi · What happens: ask, show, do · To what, where: photo, Kofi

This is test 10 of lesson 83 «White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: Kofi's mum asks about her haircut before she books it, showing him a photo.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kofi	Kofi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kofi	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 haircut	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 haircut	nmod:poss
7	haircut	haircut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	obl
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 books	case
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 books	nsubj
10	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asks	obl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 books	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 showing	punct
13	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 asks	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 showing	iobj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 photo	det
16	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 showing	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Kofi's mum				before books	about mum's haircut	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about haircut=Topic
2	show	gerund	Kofi's mum not said here	a photo	Kofi				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient photo=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What should he do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	Kofi						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Tell her all her haircuts look bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 haircuts	det:predet
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 haircuts	nmod:poss
5	haircuts	haircut	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	look	present	her haircuts					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Say "love it" whatever he thinks, to be polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 love	punct
3	love	love	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 love	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 whatever	punct
6	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 love	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thinks	nsubj
8	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 whatever	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 polite	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	12 polite	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 polite	cop
12	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 love	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love in a quote	infinitive		it					tree rules
3	think speech: other	present	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	to-infinitive						polite property	tree rules

Option 3

Say nothing, because haircuts are not his business

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 business	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 business	mark
5	haircuts	haircut	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 business	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 business	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 business	advmod
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 business	nmod:poss
9	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	not is a	present	haircuts	his business					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Be gently honest, since she is still deciding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 honest	cop
2	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 honest	advmod
3	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 deciding	punct
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 deciding	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 deciding	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 deciding	aux
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 deciding	advmod
9	deciding	decide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 honest	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					gently, honest property	tree rules
2	decide	present · progressive	she				still		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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